Showing posts with label Duochrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duochrome. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2012

Prepare for awesomeness!

I honestly don't think I have ever come across a polish this amazing before.

Yes, this is the same polish! It flashes from green to almost purple.

It's made by a company called Ebalay, who I had never heard of before, but WOW! I need all of these now!! This color is "Golden Green Iridescent".
 KKCenterHK suggests layering the iridescent polishes over black. I wanted to try it alone first because, well, I'm just stubborn like that! This was three coats. Drying time wasn't bad. Wear time was incredibly long. The brush is one of those nice, fluffy ones. Bottle is very similar to O.P.I.
 Look at that shine!

 No Flash.
 Flash.

 
KKCenterHK is offering a 10% discount with the code "willasshinytips".




This polish was sent to me for review.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Nails Inc. Redeems Itself!


Nails Inc.
Mirror Metallic - Cheyne Walk
 How freakin' gorgeous is that!?
It's like a purple mirror!
Please excuse the hellacious tipwear. I didn't even notice it until I was editing these photos. I'm guessing it's a shrinkage issue because I use Seche Vite over everything?

Can you believe these two pictures are of the same polish??
I have no idea what a Cheyne Walk is, but it's gorgeous any way.
I actually have my husband to thank for this one. I spotted it in Sephora. I was hemming and hawing over buying yet another polish (crazy, I know), when he grabbed it looked at it in the light and stuck it in the little basket he was carting around the store.
  "That's a really cool color, you're getting it." He said. God, I love that man!
As usual, he's right!








Friday, June 29, 2012

One of these is not like the others...

 I've been wanting to do this comp for awhile now. For some reason I tossed in the Spa Ritual even though it's not really like the others. But it's a silvery-grey that shifts a little bit purple.
Index Finger: Opulent Cloud
Middle Finger: OPI - Not Like the Movies
Ring Finger: Wet-n-Wild - Gray's Anatomy
Pinky: Spa Ritual - Sacred Ground

 Good golly, I forgot how freaking amazing Opulent Cloud is! It's so pretty! Sacred Ground is reather awesome too. Gray's Anatomy and Not Like the Movies are very similar except the OPI had some silver glitter? particles. While I was swatching these, I remembered I had ONE MORE that was similar to these and went and dug out Lippman - Wicked Game.

Compare:


Index: Gray's Anatomy
Middle: Not Like the Movies
Ring: Wicked Game
Pinky: Gray's Anatomy
 Gray's and WG are both very, bery thin and sheer. This is about four coats of each. Honestly, they are indistinguishable from each other.

Verdict: If you missed out on Wicked Game, pick up Gray's Anatomy (if you can still find it) it's the same thing.
If I had to get rid of one: Gray's Anatomy, the brush is big and really annoying, plus the bottle is ugly.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Juliet - Sunset Kiss

 This was a great drugstore find! I've never seen Julie nail color before, but I found it at Rite Aid. There were so many amazing colors to choose from! I picked Sunset Kiss because in the bottle it looked like it shifted from cherry red to orange to pink and it doesn't disappoint on the nail.
 I can't even county how many compliments I have gotten on this color! It's especially pretty in daylight.
I thought this was reasonable for a drug store polish at $2.99, and I definitely want to try out a few more colors!

Friday, April 20, 2012

Jessica - Irridescent Eye

 Irridescent Eye from Jessica's "Peacock Queen" Collection
 
Metallic golden-olivey-green color. Changes in the light or when angled to pure gold, or flashes of green, teal and yellow. Just beautiful!



Thursday, November 11, 2010

Monday, January 11, 2010

Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri in "Grape Going" I have heard this has been hard to find, but I was able to find it at Walgreen's. I didn't enjoy paying $4.99 for a drugstore polish, but this is such a cool color!
It's winter here in NY, so the light for taking photos hasn't been the best.

One thing I have to say about the Insta-Dri colors, the brushes SUCK. It's a really weird, stubby thing. Otherwise this was awesome.


The only other Borghese I have also has a really crappy brush. The one on Stellare Notte is fine though. This applied awesomely! It's looks so cool too. It shifts grey-blueish-purpleish-greenish. I think this is a Limited Edition shade from their "Fashionista" collection. I found it at Rite-Aid for (the highly offensive for a drugstore polish price of) $8.00.